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"...DANTON brilliantly illuminates one of the most fascinating periods of the French Revolution....A major work from this major film maker." New York Times "[I]t's hard not to warm to Depardieu's performance. He is all warmth and instinct..." Sight and Sound35.87598

"...Both battle scenes and the film's interior lighting ooze feeling and mood..." -- 3 1/2 out of 4 stars USA Today "...CYRANO is more than a career culmination for Depardieu; it's a startling surprise...a towering performance, magnificent and moving..."Rolling Stone "...[Depardieu's performance is his] own magical achievement. It is expansive, funny, gross, dainty, and always humane....[It] finds surprising new life in a theatrical antique..."New York Times "...This CYRANO is a film of dash and vigor, an exceptionally graceful adaptation of a play for the screen..."Los Angeles Times28.97232

"The ease and professionalism that distinguished this prolific director's later work is very much in evidence, as is an insouciant attitude, at once resigned and dismissive, toward mortality."New York Times "The ease and professionalism that distinguished this prolific director's later work is very much in evidence, as is an insouciant attitude, at once resigned and dismissive, toward mortality."New York Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he sense of mischief and pleasure in the craft makes BELLAMY a thoroughly intriguing and likeable experience. From Chabrol we would expect nothing less."Box Office 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he sense of mischief and pleasure in the craft makes BELLAMY a thoroughly intriguing and likeable experience. From Chabrol we would expect nothing less."Box Office "The ease and professionalism that distinguished this prolific director's later work is very much in evidence, as is an insouciant attitude, at once resigned and dismissive, toward mortality."New York Times "The ease and professionalism that distinguished this prolific director's later work is very much in evidence, as is an insouciant attitude, at once resigned and dismissive, toward mortality."New York Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he sense of mischief and pleasure in the craft makes BELLAMY a thoroughly intriguing and likeable experience. From Chabrol we would expect nothing less."Box Office 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he sense of mischief and pleasure in the craft makes BELLAMY a thoroughly intriguing and likeable experience. From Chabrol we would expect nothing less."Box Office28.76345

"The ease and professionalism that distinguished this prolific director's later work is very much in evidence, as is an insouciant attitude, at once resigned and dismissive, toward mortality."New York Times "The ease and professionalism that distinguished this prolific director's later work is very much in evidence, as is an insouciant attitude, at once resigned and dismissive, toward mortality."New York Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he sense of mischief and pleasure in the craft makes BELLAMY a thoroughly intriguing and likeable experience. From Chabrol we would expect nothing less."Box Office 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he sense of mischief and pleasure in the craft makes BELLAMY a thoroughly intriguing and likeable experience. From Chabrol we would expect nothing less."Box Office "The ease and professionalism that distinguished this prolific director's later work is very much in evidence, as is an insouciant attitude, at once resigned and dismissive, toward mortality."New York Times "The ease and professionalism that distinguished this prolific director's later work is very much in evidence, as is an insouciant attitude, at once resigned and dismissive, toward mortality."New York Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he sense of mischief and pleasure in the craft makes BELLAMY a thoroughly intriguing and likeable experience. From Chabrol we would expect nothing less."Box Office 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he sense of mischief and pleasure in the craft makes BELLAMY a thoroughly intriguing and likeable experience. From Chabrol we would expect nothing less."Box Office28.76345

"...1492 aces all of its New World visual elements..." USA Today "...Ridley Scott is a visually oriented director who finds great beauty in his vision of the New World....A satisfactory film. Depardieu lends it gravity, the supporting performances are convincing, the locations are realistic..."Chicago Sun-Times28.76345

"...The kinds of buoyantly kaleidoscopic changes one might associate with a fairy tale. It's an extraordinarily spry and witty film..." New York Times Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1986" New York Times28.45014

3 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n often surreal road movie, which blends social commentary with deadpan humour....Depardieu brings a touching vulnerability to Serge."Total Film "[I]t's one of the most tender and moving films to come out of Europe in recent years."Sight and Sound28.45014

"...The more of this director's work one sees, the more one appreciates....Depardieu, yet again, combines bruitshness, intelligence and profound emotion with a subtlety that has no equal." New York Times "...A personal film that deliberately works against conventional expectations....POLICE is one of Pialat's most assured and polished performances..."Variety "...Mesmerizing....Pialat builds slowly, through an accumulation of detail and atmosphere....His finely crafted, singular films catch you unawares, wind you tighter and tighter as you see them, and linger for months, even years after..."Los Angeles Times "[S]howcasing one of Gerard Depardieu's strongest performances..."Sight and Sound28.45014

"...It has a power to surprise, to show the expected event in an unexpected light..."Sight and Sound "...Grand and flawed, polemical yet filled with brilliant images, it has Tolstoyan ambitions and many endearing quirks..."New York Times "...A monumental achievement....1900 overflows with an abundant love of life in all its beauty and pain, sensuality and despair..."Los Angeles Times "The frank sexuality still startles, along with some horrifying violence, but 1900's edge is political....Virtuosic filmmaking..." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly24.89388

"...It has a power to surprise, to show the expected event in an unexpected light..."Sight and Sound "...Grand and flawed, polemical yet filled with brilliant images, it has Tolstoyan ambitions and many endearing quirks..."New York Times "...A monumental achievement....1900 overflows with an abundant love of life in all its beauty and pain, sensuality and despair..."Los Angeles Times "The frank sexuality still startles, along with some horrifying violence, but 1900's edge is political....Virtuosic filmmaking..." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly24.89388

"...[A] sweetly funny and touching film..."Rolling Stone "...Mature....[A] sensitive piece of work..."Sight and Sound "...Charming and full of compassion....So well structured and accomplished that it projects an aura of freshness..."Variety "...Nick Cassavetes reveals the influence of his father, and he's certainly learned the importance of depth of character form both parents, Yet you have the feeling in this tender, often funny film that this Cassavetes is definitely his own man..."Los Angeles Times "...A film of gentleness and low-key romance....Like his father, Nick Cassavetes has made a movie about a slice of life..."Chicago Sun-Times24.89388

"...Exuberant, French Midi, melodramatic comedy....All of the performances, like the characters, are rich without being quaint..."New York Times "...Heavily satisfying....A tragicomedy of character and place, it is zestfully well acted by Gerard Depardieu, Yves Montand and an actor relatively new to us, Daniel Auteuil..."Los Angeles Times24.89388

"Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's mega-selling novel LIFE OF PI is technically adept....The 3D is eye-popping and the film lively with incident..."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Ang Lee's LIFE OF PI is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]s elegant as it is epic with the director creating a grand adventure so cinematically bold, and a spiritual voyage so quietly profound, that if not for the risk to the castaways, you might wish their passage from India would never end."Los Angeles Times "Director Ang Lee executes all this with dizzying, overwhelming verve: The shipwreck in particular is a dazzling sequence, particularly traumatic in 3-D..." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Lee uses 3D with the delicacy and lyricism of a poet. You don't just watch this movie, you live it."Rolling Stone "Everything looks beautiful in LIFE OF PI....Pure gorgeousness, shimmering with all the wow that superlative 3-D technology has to offer."Entertainment Weekly "[A] thrillingly conceived and executed take on Yann Martels Booker Prize winner."Total Film "Lee's exquisite adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 best seller is a visual feast that leaves an indelible impression. Vibrantly rendered 3-D adds to the film's otherworldly quality."USA Today "[B]eautifully filmed by Claudio Miranda, inflected with a hint of exoticism by Mychael Dannas score and graced with the presence of a handful of excellent Indian actors..."New York Times "Like a lyrical, extravagantly hued childrens pop-up book, LIFE OF PI both draws the audience in and encourages it to settle back, the better to enjoy its virtually nonstop display of daring, wonder and cinematic virtuosity."Washington Post "PI gains a front-row seat on the miracles of creation, bearing witness to an out-to-sea world full of astonishing and ethereal visions..."Sight and Sound0.4177402

"Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's mega-selling novel LIFE OF PI is technically adept....The 3D is eye-popping and the film lively with incident..."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Ang Lee's LIFE OF PI is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]s elegant as it is epic with the director creating a grand adventure so cinematically bold, and a spiritual voyage so quietly profound, that if not for the risk to the castaways, you might wish their passage from India would never end."Los Angeles Times "Director Ang Lee executes all this with dizzying, overwhelming verve: The shipwreck in particular is a dazzling sequence, particularly traumatic in 3-D..." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Lee uses 3D with the delicacy and lyricism of a poet. You don't just watch this movie, you live it."Rolling Stone "Everything looks beautiful in LIFE OF PI....Pure gorgeousness, shimmering with all the wow that superlative 3-D technology has to offer."Entertainment Weekly "[A] thrillingly conceived and executed take on Yann Martels Booker Prize winner."Total Film "Lee's exquisite adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 best seller is a visual feast that leaves an indelible impression. Vibrantly rendered 3-D adds to the film's otherworldly quality."USA Today "[B]eautifully filmed by Claudio Miranda, inflected with a hint of exoticism by Mychael Dannas score and graced with the presence of a handful of excellent Indian actors..."New York Times "Like a lyrical, extravagantly hued childrens pop-up book, LIFE OF PI both draws the audience in and encourages it to settle back, the better to enjoy its virtually nonstop display of daring, wonder and cinematic virtuosity."Washington Post "PI gains a front-row seat on the miracles of creation, bearing witness to an out-to-sea world full of astonishing and ethereal visions..."Sight and Sound0.4177402

"Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's mega-selling novel LIFE OF PI is technically adept....The 3D is eye-popping and the film lively with incident..."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Ang Lee's LIFE OF PI is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]s elegant as it is epic with the director creating a grand adventure so cinematically bold, and a spiritual voyage so quietly profound, that if not for the risk to the castaways, you might wish their passage from India would never end."Los Angeles Times "Director Ang Lee executes all this with dizzying, overwhelming verve: The shipwreck in particular is a dazzling sequence, particularly traumatic in 3-D..." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Lee uses 3D with the delicacy and lyricism of a poet. You don't just watch this movie, you live it."Rolling Stone "Everything looks beautiful in LIFE OF PI....Pure gorgeousness, shimmering with all the wow that superlative 3-D technology has to offer."Entertainment Weekly "[A] thrillingly conceived and executed take on Yann Martels Booker Prize winner."Total Film "Lee's exquisite adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 best seller is a visual feast that leaves an indelible impression. Vibrantly rendered 3-D adds to the film's otherworldly quality."USA Today "[B]eautifully filmed by Claudio Miranda, inflected with a hint of exoticism by Mychael Dannas score and graced with the presence of a handful of excellent Indian actors..."New York Times "Like a lyrical, extravagantly hued childrens pop-up book, LIFE OF PI both draws the audience in and encourages it to settle back, the better to enjoy its virtually nonstop display of daring, wonder and cinematic virtuosity."Washington Post "PI gains a front-row seat on the miracles of creation, bearing witness to an out-to-sea world full of astonishing and ethereal visions..."Sight and Sound0.4177402

"Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's mega-selling novel LIFE OF PI is technically adept....The 3D is eye-popping and the film lively with incident..."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Ang Lee's LIFE OF PI is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]s elegant as it is epic with the director creating a grand adventure so cinematically bold, and a spiritual voyage so quietly profound, that if not for the risk to the castaways, you might wish their passage from India would never end."Los Angeles Times "Lee's exquisite adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 best seller is a visual feast that leaves an indelible impression. Vibrantly rendered 3-D adds to the film's otherworldly quality."USA Today "[B]eautifully filmed by Claudio Miranda, inflected with a hint of exoticism by Mychael Dannas score and graced with the presence of a handful of excellent Indian actors..."New York Times "Director Ang Lee executes all this with dizzying, overwhelming verve: The shipwreck in particular is a dazzling sequence, particularly traumatic in 3-D..." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club "Like a lyrical, extravagantly hued childrens pop-up book, LIFE OF PI both draws the audience in and encourages it to settle back, the better to enjoy its virtually nonstop display of daring, wonder and cinematic virtuosity."Washington Post 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Lee uses 3D with the delicacy and lyricism of a poet. You don't just watch this movie, you live it."Rolling Stone "Everything looks beautiful in LIFE OF PI....Pure gorgeousness, shimmering with all the wow that superlative 3-D technology has to offer."Entertainment Weekly "[A] thrillingly conceived and executed take on Yann Martels Booker Prize winner."Total Film "PI gains a front-row seat on the miracles of creation, bearing witness to an out-to-sea world full of astonishing and ethereal visions..."Sight and Sound0.4177402

"Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's mega-selling novel LIFE OF PI is technically adept....The 3D is eye-popping and the film lively with incident..."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Ang Lee's LIFE OF PI is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]s elegant as it is epic with the director creating a grand adventure so cinematically bold, and a spiritual voyage so quietly profound, that if not for the risk to the castaways, you might wish their passage from India would never end."Los Angeles Times "Lee's exquisite adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 best seller is a visual feast that leaves an indelible impression. Vibrantly rendered 3-D adds to the film's otherworldly quality."USA Today "[B]eautifully filmed by Claudio Miranda, inflected with a hint of exoticism by Mychael Dannas score and graced with the presence of a handful of excellent Indian actors..."New York Times "Director Ang Lee executes all this with dizzying, overwhelming verve: The shipwreck in particular is a dazzling sequence, particularly traumatic in 3-D..." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club "Like a lyrical, extravagantly hued childrens pop-up book, LIFE OF PI both draws the audience in and encourages it to settle back, the better to enjoy its virtually nonstop display of daring, wonder and cinematic virtuosity."Washington Post 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Lee uses 3D with the delicacy and lyricism of a poet. You don't just watch this movie, you live it."Rolling Stone "Everything looks beautiful in LIFE OF PI....Pure gorgeousness, shimmering with all the wow that superlative 3-D technology has to offer."Entertainment Weekly "[A] thrillingly conceived and executed take on Yann Martels Booker Prize winner."Total Film "PI gains a front-row seat on the miracles of creation, bearing witness to an out-to-sea world full of astonishing and ethereal visions..."Sight and Sound0.4177402

"Ang Lee's adaptation of Yann Martel's mega-selling novel LIFE OF PI is technically adept....The 3D is eye-popping and the film lively with incident..."Box Office 4 stars out of 4 -- "Ang Lee's LIFE OF PI is a miraculous achievement of storytelling and a landmark of visual mastery."Chicago Sun-Times "[A]s elegant as it is epic with the director creating a grand adventure so cinematically bold, and a spiritual voyage so quietly profound, that if not for the risk to the castaways, you might wish their passage from India would never end."Los Angeles Times "Lee's exquisite adaptation of Yann Martel's 2001 best seller is a visual feast that leaves an indelible impression. Vibrantly rendered 3-D adds to the film's otherworldly quality."USA Today "[B]eautifully filmed by Claudio Miranda, inflected with a hint of exoticism by Mychael Dannas score and graced with the presence of a handful of excellent Indian actors..."New York Times "Director Ang Lee executes all this with dizzying, overwhelming verve: The shipwreck in particular is a dazzling sequence, particularly traumatic in 3-D..." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club "Like a lyrical, extravagantly hued childrens pop-up book, LIFE OF PI both draws the audience in and encourages it to settle back, the better to enjoy its virtually nonstop display of daring, wonder and cinematic virtuosity."Washington Post 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Lee uses 3D with the delicacy and lyricism of a poet. You don't just watch this movie, you live it."Rolling Stone "Everything looks beautiful in LIFE OF PI....Pure gorgeousness, shimmering with all the wow that superlative 3-D technology has to offer."Entertainment Weekly "[A] thrillingly conceived and executed take on Yann Martels Booker Prize winner."Total Film "PI gains a front-row seat on the miracles of creation, bearing witness to an out-to-sea world full of astonishing and ethereal visions..."Sight and Sound0.4177402

"Everything screams polyester '70s in the playful French bauble POTICHE..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 4 -- "That Deneuve so convincingly inhabits this character is a demonstration of effortless skill....POTICHE is a whimsical comedy, based on a popular Parisian stage success of some years ago."Chicago Sun-Times "[Deneuve] whisks her way through POTICHE like a cheerful Disney princess of a certain age....It's a relief to watch an actress who hasn't vested every ounce of her energy to be a younger version of herself."Movieline 3 stars out of 5 -- "Ozon plays it for laughs, reveling in his pastel vision of the '70s."Total Film "The period setting affords plentiful cultural in-jokes....Ozon illuminates our understanding both of the period and of our own attitudes, rather as MAD MEN does with its perspective on the early 1960s."Sight and Sound0.3133051

"Everything screams polyester '70s in the playful French bauble POTICHE..." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 4 -- "That Deneuve so convincingly inhabits this character is a demonstration of effortless skill....POTICHE is a whimsical comedy, based on a popular Parisian stage success of some years ago."Chicago Sun-Times "[Deneuve] whisks her way through POTICHE like a cheerful Disney princess of a certain age....It's a relief to watch an actress who hasn't vested every ounce of her energy to be a younger version of herself."Movieline 3 stars out of 5 -- "Ozon plays it for laughs, reveling in his pastel vision of the '70s."Total Film "The period setting affords plentiful cultural in-jokes....Ozon illuminates our understanding both of the period and of our own attitudes, rather as MAD MEN does with its perspective on the early 1960s."Sight and Sound0.3133051

"[A]t its best, it's a mesmerizing portrait of a man who mesmerized a lot of people, right up to that bloody display of police power on the Paris streets."A.V. Club "In the title role, Vincent Cassel is a relentless force -- a visionary schemer, a virtuoso seducer, a self-styled Robin Hood, a dilettante revolutionary and frequently, or sometimes simultaneously, an unspeakable brute.'Wall Street Journal 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Mesrine, played with rough intensity by Vincent Cassel, was the most famous criminal in French history..."Chicago Sun-Times0.2610876

"[A]t its best, it's a mesmerizing portrait of a man who mesmerized a lot of people, right up to that bloody display of police power on the Paris streets."A.V. Club "In the title role, Vincent Cassel is a relentless force -- a visionary schemer, a virtuoso seducer, a self-styled Robin Hood, a dilettante revolutionary and frequently, or sometimes simultaneously, an unspeakable brute.'Wall Street Journal 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Mesrine, played with rough intensity by Vincent Cassel, was the most famous criminal in French history..."Chicago Sun-Times0.2610876